Hi, On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 05:35:25PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Wednesday 01 December 2004 16:59, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > > Is there a simple way (besides running this on native alpha) to build > > the nfsroot for the other architecture? > > No. After the debian-base-archiv has been untared, the scripts chroots into > the yet-to-be-build nfsroot and tries to execute binary inside it. These > binaries are alpha-binaries and don't work on i386,...
I got it. > > (It's kind of hen-and-egg problem since I don't have an Alpha with > > Debian installed, that's why I tried to FAI...) > > I think you have to test the new debian-installer ;-) (Please submit a > bugreport...) although another linux-installation on alpha should be > sufficient - but you don't have one accessable ? Qemu doesn't emulate alpha > (yet?). I'm running d-i (based on Steve's netboot image) right now. Will hopefully finish before the weekend. > Since I once also ran into this problem I now keep backups of my > i386+ppc-nfsroots... they're part of the FAI_CONFIGDIR and "only" 95mb in > size (each). Good idea. > Holger (who really has to update his howto on fai&ppc) Steffen (who didn't do anything for AlFAI for months)
